Bayer Loses Fight Over Chemicals EU Blamed for Killing Bees (1)

Bayer AG lost its fight to topple a European Union ban on controversial insecticides that regulators blame for killing honeybees.

The EU Court of Justice dismissed the appeal, finding there were no legal errors in the European Commission’s decision to impose restrictions on the substances’ use, based on concerns that the chemicals posed “high acute risks for bees” and “the survival and development of colonies in several crops.”

Bayer and Syngenta AG in 2018 already lost a first round in court after telling judges that the EU ban on three so-called neonicotinoids forced farmers to revert to potentially more harmful ...